And you thought it couldn't get any worse?
Is there a psychiatrist in Rome, or how about, an exorcist?
Can you get one over to the St. Martha Motor Inn right away, top floor?
Seriously, there are a few things to unpack in this which I've bolded. His Peronist style of dictatorship conflicting with his wants for a Synodal Church, and his own manipulation that two-thirds of those voting at the Synod voted for Holy Communion for adulterers. This is not the case. He is playing games with the ambiguity of his own work.
Cardinals, Bishops! You must speak out to "Peter!" Only four? Only Bishop Schneider and a handful of others.
Are the rest of you emasculated cowards?
ROME- Never one to shy away from a soundbite, Pope Francis said media organizations have a
tendency to “coprophragy”, meaning that which is dirty and base, and that they
shouldn’t exploit this instinct to generate sales and readers.
Ah, the gentle soul Ines St. Martin. She is very prim and proper not wanting to offend. Who could blame here for substituting "smut" for what Bergoglio really said and what it really means.
Coprophagia
/kɒp.rə.ˈfeɪ.dʒi.ə/[1] or coprophagy /kəˈprɒfədʒiː/ is the consumption of
feces. The word is derived from the Greek κόπρος copros, "feces" and
φαγεῖν phagein, "to eat". Coprophagy refers to many kinds of
feces-eating, including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics), of
other individuals (allocoprophagy), or one's own (autocoprophagy) – those once
deposited or taken directly from the anus.[2]
Coprophilia
(from Greek κόπρος, kópros—excrement and φιλία, philía—liking, fondness), also
called scatophilia or scat (Greek: σκατά, skatá-feces),[1] is the paraphilia
involving sexual arousal and pleasure from feces.[2][3] In the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American
Psychiatric Association, it is classified under 302.89 – Paraphilia NOS (Not
Otherwise Specified) and has no diagnostic criteria other than a general
statement about paraphilias that says "the diagnosis is made if the
behavior, sexual urges, or fantasies cause clinically significant distress or
impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of
functioning".
Oh, and you thought this was the first time he's used this flowery language?
http://www.businessinsider.com/pope-warns-journalists-of-coprophilia-2013-3
Now, back to Crux.
Francis has also said he prefers a “synodal” church, one in
which the pope accompanies others and helps them grow, to a “pyramidal” church,
where “Peter says what to do.”
The comments came in an interview with the Belgian weekly
magazine Tertio.
On the media, the pontiff said news organizations have the power to do a lot of good, but at
the same time, are prone to what he called four “temptations.”
The first, he said, is calumny, “to tell a lie about a
person,” something particularly seen “in the world of politics.”
Then there’s defamation, in which news stories damage
people’s reputations.
The pope said that “every person has the right to a good
name, but perhaps in their previous life, or in their past life, or 10 years
ago, had a problem with the law or in his family life…so, bringing this into
the spotlight is grave, it damages, it cancels a person.”
To describe this form of defamation, he used an Argentine
expression meaning, roughly, “to bring out a file” on someone, holding them
responsible today for what they did a long time ago, even after they have been
punished or repented of it.
The third temptation is “misinformation,” meaning, “faced
with any situation, to say one part of the truth but not the other.”
“No! This is to misinform,” he said. “Because you give half
of the truth to the viewer. And as such, he [or she] can’t come to a proper
judgement about the whole truth.”
Misinformation, he said, is “probably the biggest damage a
news organization can cause. Because it directs public opinion in one direction
by removing a part of the truth.”
Francis said that media are also called to be clean and
transparent, without falling into what he called “the disease of coprophilia:
constantly looking to communicate scandal, communicate ugly things, even if they
are true.”
In the literal sense, coprophagy and coprophilia are
perversions involving excrement, usually linked to mental illness. In Spanish,
the language in which the interview was conducted, the terms are sometimes used
to refer to an appetite for morbid or sick stories.
“And since people have a tendency towards coprophagy, it can
be very damaging,” the pope insisted, before adding that the media are builders
of opinion, and that as such, potentially do “immense good.”
This is not the first time Francis has used this language to
refer to what he considers the media’s tendency to place too much emphasis on
the negative. In a 2013 interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, he was
asked about corruption in the curia, the Vatican bureaucracy.
At that time, the pope said that the curia gave an important
service, and that news about its corruption were often exaggerated and
manipulated to spread scandal.
“Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia
and thus encouraging coprophagia,” he told Andrea Tornielli at the time, “which
is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the
negative rather than the positive aspects.”
In the interview with Tertio, released on Wednesday, Francis
was also asked about his attempts to “renew the Church” inspired by the Second
Vatican Council. In his reply, the pope distinguished what he called the
‘synodal Church’, which he contrasted with a pyramidal, or top-down, model.
“The Church is born from the communities, the bases,
baptism, and is organized around a bishop that convokes it, strengthens it,” he
said. “The bishop is the successor of the apostles. This is the Church. But in
the world, there are many bishops, many organized churches, and there’s Peter.”
Hence, he continued, there’s either a “pyramidal” Church,
where “what Peter says what to do,” or a synodal Church, where “Peter is Peter
but he accompanies the Churches and makes them grow.”
The richest experience of the latter, Francis said, were the
two synod of bishops on the family, which took place in October 2014 and again
in 2015. During them, he continued, all the bishops of the world, representing
their dioceses, made their voices heard.
“From there we have ‘Amoris Laetitia,’” the pope said,
referring to the apostolic exhortation he released earlier in the year, as the
fruit of the synods.
The richness of nuances present there, he added, is part of
the Church: “Unity in differences. This is synodality. Not to go down from top
to bottom, but to listen to the Churches and harmonize them, discern.”
Everything which is present in this document, Francis
continued, was approved in the synod by two thirds of the bishops, and this is
a “guarantee.”
Synodality, the pope said, is something the Catholic Church
still has to work on and not to be afraid to embrace, adding the Latin phrase
that says that the churches are always with Peter and under Peter, cum petro et
sub petro, make the pope the “guarantor of the unity of the Church.”
Asked about the 100th anniversary of World War I, Francis said
that Europeans didn’t live up to the post-war call of “war never again.”
While lip service is being paid to the idea, weapons are
being produced and sold to both sides in a conflict.
Acknowledging he hasn’t studied this economic theory in
depth, he mentioned reading in several books the theory that when a country’s
accounts don’t balance as they should, nations go to war for financial reasons.
“Making war is an easy way to make wealth,” he said. “But of
course, the price is very high: blood.”
Quoting his own reference of a World War III being fought
piecemeal, he mentioned the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East,
Africa and Yemen as examples.
Asked about current conflicts being fueled by religious
differences, Francis insisted, as he’s done before, on the fact that no war can
be justified in the name of God or religion.
“Terrorism, war, are not related to religion,” he said.
“Religious deformations are used to justify [war],” but they have nothing to do
“with the essence of what is religious. Religion is love, unity, respect,
dialogue.”
In the interview, Francis was also asked about a possible
trip to Belgium, to which he answered it’s not currently in the works. Yet he
did share something that was unknown even for Geert de Kerpel, editor of Tertio
and the man behind the interview: while he was a Jesuit provincial in
Argentina, Francis traveled to Belgium several times.
“There was an Association of Friends of the Catholic
University of Cordoba,” Francis said. “And as its chancellor, I would go there
to talk to them when they had their spiritual exercises.”
De Kerpel did some follow-up research and found out that the
reason behind the travel was a Jesuit priest named Jean Sonet, once the rector
of the Jesuit-run Université de Namur in Belgium. In 1958, De Kerpel told Crux,
the priest relocated to Argentina, where he became the librarian of the
Catholic University of Cordoba. Eventually, he became vice-rector of the
university.
It was Sonet who asked his friends for help. The impact this
group of friends had on the institution was such that a recently inaugurated
new library at the Catholic University of Cordoba was named after Sonet.
